Professor Sanku Mallik, NDSU Pharmaceutical Sciences, has received the Dale Hogoboom Presidential Professorship at NDSU.
He will be recognized during the annual NDSU Celebration of Faculty Excellence, scheduled for Thursday, May 11, 2023, at 3 p.m. in the Memorial Union’s Anishinaabe Theater.
“Endowed Professorship Awards are given to faculty members who have an outstanding record in all areas of faculty work – teaching, research and service,” said Vice Provost Canan Bilen-Green, who oversees campus wide faculty awards. “This year more than 30 faculty were nominated for an endowed professorship." Selections were made by the NDSU Faculty Awards and Recognition Committee with awards to faculty members in pharmaceutical sciences, plant sciences, and emergency management.
The Hogoboom professorship is awarded to faculty at the rank of professor with at least eight years of service to NDSU and carries a stipend of $6,500 for expenditures related to the recipient’s academic endeavors for each of the next two years.
NDSU students regularly rank Mallik among the best teachers in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. He received the Teacher of the Year Award in 2021 and was a finalist seven times from 2012 to 2020.
He has an extensive record of service. Mallik has chaired the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee. He served on the College of Health Professions PTE Committee, Doctor of Pharmacy Admissions Committee, College Faculty Awards Committee and School of Pharmacy Assessment Committee.
“Dr. Mallik has an outstanding record of scholarship, high-quality teaching and service to the profession,” said nominator Charles Peterson, professor and dean of the NDSU College of Health Professions.
“Dr. Mallik’s record of research productivity is exemplary. He has published 124 peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals, including the highest ranked journals in his fields of expertise,” Peterson said, noting Mallik also has published 10 book chapters, more than 40 abstracts or conference proceedings and holds five patents. Mallik also serves as a director of the Center for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategies in Pancreatic Cancer at NDSU.
Mallik came to NDSU in 2006. He earned his bachelor’s degree at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India; and doctorate in organic chemistry from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He had a post-doctoral post at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the NDSU School of Pharmacy offers master’s and PhD degree programs, emphasizing both research and teaching excellence. The department's research portfolio includes R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health, with research focused on the role of pharmaceutical sciences in disease prevention, disease treatment, and additional research to promote health.
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